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Home | Events Archive | A Historical Perspective of Health Inequality in Britain
Seminar

A Historical Perspective of Health Inequality in Britain

  • Location
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Campus Woudestein, Polak 2.07
    Rotterdam
  • Date and time

    May 22, 2024
    12:00 - 13:00

Abstract
Reducing health inequality is a policy priority for health systems and governments globally, and this requires detailed understanding of its origins. In this seminar, a novel interdisciplinary approach to understanding health inequality over time is presented, through an analysis of bioarchaeological data spanning nearly two thousand years of British history. Variation in primary indicators of health between burial sites associated with affluent and poor communities is assessed across four historical periods, showing that socioeconomic health inequality has been variably present for at least 2,000 years in Britain.